March 31st, 2009 by Brad Lovell

I received a phone call from Johny on the weekend asking me to come over to find his lost gold ring.  Johny’s partner Darren, was working in the garden while wearing the ring on his little finger.  Darren eventually noticed the ring had fallen off, but was not exactly sure where. He was very confident that the ring dropped off his finger during the time he was working in the garden. I let Johny know that I would be happy to do a search  on Monday morning. After about an hour and a half drive on Monday morning, I arrived at the house. I was greeted by Darren, who showed me where he believed he had lost Johny’s gold ring. The garden wrapped around one corner of the house. When I first started searching for the lost ring, I figured this should be an easy job. But the further I moved down the garden, the more dense it became. There we’re many spots in the garden where it was impossible for me to move the metal detector coil over the surface of the ground. In fact, there we’re many parts of the garden I could not even see the ground due to dense scrubs and plants. After a good 2.5 hour search, it was time for me to call it quits. I could see the disappointment in Darren’s face that I had not found the lost ring. I really hope that one day while working on the garden, either Johny or Darren will find it amongst the plants.

February 14th, 2009 by Brad Lovell

I received a phonecall from Jackie about a week ago. Her daughter had lost a gold ring in the backyard of their house. Before going for a swim, Jackie’s daughter placed her towel on the fence, and then placed her ring on top of the towel. After a swim, she grabbed the towel, forgetting the ring was placed on top. The ring fell, but no one was sure where. Jackie hired a metal detector and searched the backyard for signals, but had no luck in recovering the lost ring. She finally gave up, and called me over to try and find it. Jackie and her family live in FaulconBridge, in the Blue Mountains. This is normally out of the area I service, but Jackie sounded like a nice lady on the phone, so I really wanted to help. Unfortunately my DFX metal detector is still in for repairs, so I had no choice but to use my Excalibur Underwater Detector. As it turns out, it was raining when I arrived at Jackies, so I would have been unable to use the DFX detector anyway. After being shown the area where the ring possibly dropped I got to work. After searching under some shrubs besides the pool, I moved the detector towards a grass area close to a garden. The Excalibur gave out a nice smooth loud signal which normally means Gold! I started parting the grass aside with my screw driver, and saw a glimpse of gold between the blades. There it was, the beautiful ring pictured above. After a quick 10 minute search, the ring was back in the hands of its owner. Lucky for me this was a quick job, being Valentines Day my girlfriend was not too happy I was off metal detecting. But thanks to Jackie giving me such a generous reward, i’m sure we will have a nice dinner tonight